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Food Runners Ships One Millionth Hot Senior Meal

On Thursday, February 22, 2007, Food Runners shipped the One-Millionth Hot Senior Meal to its senior meal client programs. From a modest beginning on March 1, 2005, Food Runners has responded to an increasing need for its services in the Triangle region. Food Runners is currently providing almost 2300 hot meals per day, Monday through Friday, to six senior programs in the Triangle region. In addition we are providing 200 frozen meals per day to three programs for seniors who are not at home during the day due to medical treatments, or they do not live on regular volunteer delivery routes.   

Food Runners Collaborative is a joint venture of the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle and Meals on Wheels of Wake County, working to insure that no one goes hungry. Food Runners provides a commercial kitchen and support facilities and services to enable these organizations to focus on feeding the elderly, teaching new job skills to the homeless, providing food for children and working families through hundreds of local agencies, and making our community a better place for all our citizens. Food Runners also prepares nutritious Senior Meals for Older Americans throughout the Triangle region.

Meals on Wheels delivers more than food - it delivers comfort. With a focus on delivering 1200 hot lunches each day, Meals On Wheels volunteers also bring the homebound daily support and the peace of mind that someone will be checking on them. Meals On Wheels also offers meals in congregant settings for seniors who can come to a community center for food and fellowship.

Everyday the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle recovers, prepares, and distributes wholesome perishable food that food vendors and restaurants choose not to sell. Last year, the Food Shuttle delivered over five million pounds of food via safe sanitary distribution to the area's poor, hungry undernourished and homeless. Recipient agencies include shelters, soup kitchens, after school programs, and food pantries. In addition the Food Shuttle provides a Culinary Job Training Program for homeless and sheltered people as a critical first step in helping them gain marketable skills to achieve self sufficiency.